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Herbarium Hosts The CBX Takeover for The Last Prisoner Project – PRNewswire
Posted: May 22, 2021 at 9:59 am
LOS ANGELES, May 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Herbarium is officially partnering with CBX to fundraise for The Last Prisoner Project and advocate for the decriminalization of cannabis. CBX Takeover, presented by Herbarium and CBX, will be held May 28th, 2021 in Herbarium's LA location.
The war on drugs and cannabis policies have left disastrous impacts in communities throughout the United States, disproportionately affecting Black and Brown people. While state and federal cannabis policies are changing, there is still a long way to go to establish and maintain equity and justice. Herbarium stands with communities of color and people who've been wrongfully imprisoned for cannabis.
"Herbarium has built itself a very strong platform where we're able to influence. We've always been at the forefront of advocacy, progression, and change. We want to bring attention to this mission and act on it. We've decided to work with one of our top partners, Cannabiotix, who shares the same values and beliefs we do. We're coming together with LPP to be a catalyst for change. Because that day will come" Adie Meiri (Founder & CEO). Herbarium has invested in a thought-provoking billboard campaign all around Los Angeles County to raise awareness and advocate for social change.
10% of CBX proceeds for the day will be donated to The Last Prisoner Project by Herbarium. Our patients and event attendees will be able to donate at the registers, to our donation boxes, or directly to The Last Prisoner Project via QR codes or http://WWW.lastprisonerproject.org. There will be flyers with information on our mission and a pen pal directory provided by The Last Prisoner Project.
We hope that our event presented by Herbarium, CBX, and The Last Prisoner Project will not only raise awareness but inspire others to act and contribute to our collective mission.
For more information on CBX Takeover, FAQs, registration, or donationsvisit http://WWW.Herbarium.LA and http://WWW.LastPrisonerProject.org.
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Herbarium is a California-based cannabis brand, with vertically integrated shops, committed to educate people about cannabis and its benefits, advocate for the decriminalization of cannabis, and elevate people's lifestyles and experiences. Herbarium is the only cannabis brand that caters to their clientele by constantly improving products while providing the lowest prices in the region.
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A Top Rand Paul Donor Is Dropping Big Bucks to Elect Andrew Yang Mother Jones – Mother Jones
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A new ad supporting former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang in the New York City mayoral race comes with an interesting disclosure at the end: The top three spenders responsible for the ad are all Republican megadonors.
GOP support for Yang, who is running in the citys Democratic primary, is showing up in donations to super PACs, which can accept unlimited amounts of cash. Jeff Yass, a libertarian billionaire and longtime supporter of Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), is the first name listed on the pro-Yang ad from a super PAC called Comeback PAC. Andrew has a lot of libertarian leanings, Yasswho has bankrolled numerous Republicanstold Politico recently. He is not quite a libertarian, to say the least, but he has those leanings.
As I wrote earlier this week, Yang is viewed suspiciously by many New York progressives, who see him as a corporate-style Democrat with libertarian tendencies. Yangs centrist leanings are most apparent in his views on business and economics, and his campaign is being guided by a consulting and lobbying firm that has run campaigns to stop tax hikes on the wealthy.
Two other major GOP donors round out the list on the super PACs ad disclosure. Kenneth Griffin has spent millions in recent years to elect national Republicans. Daniel Loeb has supported Republicans, as well as New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a moderate Democrat.
Griffin and Loeb, both hedge fund managers, have hedged their bets in the mayorsraceby also donating a combined $2 million to a super PAC supporting Eric Adams, another moderate candidate who recently overtook Yang in some polls.
These three arent the only big-money donors jumping into the Democratic primary. Republican donor and oil magnate John Hess has donated $1 million to support Ray McGuire, a Wall Street executive who is seen as another centrist in the field. George Soros dropped $500,000 to support progressive Maya Wiley. And unions have likewise opened their pocketbooks to support progressives who are currently trailing Yang and Adams. Shaun Donovan, former HUD secretary under President Barack Obama, has benefited from nearly $7 million in outside spending from his father, Michael Donovan.
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Rossi holds big lead in 59th Legislative District special election – TribDem.com
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Leslie Baum Rossi, a Republican, appeared headed toward a victory in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives 59th Legislative District special election as of midnight on Wednesday.
But complete unofficial results were not released.
In Somerset County, where all election day votes but none of the mail-in were announced, Rossi had 2,320 votes, compared to 812 for Democrat Mariah Fisher and 58 for Libertarian Robb Luther. Meanwhile, in Westmoreland County, with 38 of 41 precincts reporting, Rossi had 7,624 votes, compared to 4,074 for Fisher and 325 for Luther.
They were running in a special election to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Rep. Mike Reese, a Republican, earlier this year.
In a previous interview with The Tribune-Democrat, Rossi described her political views by saying, My values are very far right. Im pro-Second Amendment. Im pro-life. I really have no liberal anything. Im far right. Im a far-right conservative for the working class.
Rossi is an ardent supporter of former President Donald Trump.
Luther, a marketing professional with a Pittsburgh firm, left the Republican Party, becoming a Libertarian, because he did not support the claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Trump, which turned into a central belief for the GOP over the past six months.
As a Libertarian, we run of principle, Luther said during an interview around 11 p.m. We know were a third party, so we know its a stretch. But we go out there and give it everything we have.
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Dave Sutor is a reporter for The Tribune-Democrat. He can be reached at814-532-5056. Follow him on Twitter@Dave_Sutor.
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Wingfield: Reagan’s words on government programs still ring true – Savannah Morning News
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This is a column by Kyle Wingfield, president and CEO of theGeorgia Public Policy Foundation, a Libertarian-leaning policy think tank based in Atlanta.
No government, Ronald Reagan once observed, ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
That was true when Reagan said it almost 60 years ago. Nothing in the intervening years has proven him wrong.
Trouble is, nowadays were launching government programs by the trillions of dollars. And theres depressingly little reason to believe well see them disappear once the crisis used to justify them has ended.
Consider the stimulus package Congress passed in 2009, in the name of fighting the previous recession. That package, which eventually weighed in at more than $800 billion, was alleged to be one-time funding that would indeed disappear.
No such luck. Federal spending in 2009 surpassed $3 trillion for the first time, checking in at just over $3.5 trillion. It never again fell below $3.4 trillion. The one-time stimulus spending simply came to be baked into the cake.
Every number I just cited is fairly quaint by todays standards. Congress spent $3.5 trillion last year on COVID-19 relief bills alone, tacking on another $1.9 trillion earlier this year.
If you dont think these mind-boggling sums are on track to become permanent features of the federal landscape, recall that President Joe Biden has proposed more than $4 trillion in additional new spending. At least that amount would be spent over the course of several years. On the other hand, its only May; more proposals are probably on the way.
Just as the sweets you eat today will hang around your waistline well after tomorrow if you dont do something about it, consider one specific example of where thats likely to happen: education spending.
For decades now, spending on public education has been rising steadily, well out of line with increases in student enrollment (which has risen much more modestly) or standardized test scores (which have been mostly flat). Yet, the only refrain we hear from the education establishment is that our schools are underfunded.
We hear that even now, with costs related to the pandemic offered as a reason. Thats not really a reason. Its an excuse.
Georgia has 180 city and county school districts. After the 2019 fiscal year, the last one completed before the pandemic, their collective financial reserves were almost $3.2 billion. A year later, after the brutal first few months of the pandemic, and the attendant costs of moving suddenly to virtual platforms such as WiFi hotspots and laptops for students, that number was wait for it almost $3.8 billion.
Thats right: Georgia school districts collective reserves increased by more than $600 million even as things were collapsing all around them.
To be fair, not every district fared so well. Thirty-five districts saw their fund balances fall, some by several million dollars. But far more enjoyed increases, by more than $1 million apiece for almost half of the districts.
Its true that districts have since weathered two years of austerity cuts to their state funding, totaling almost $730 million. Even so, thats a fraction of the nearly $6.8 billion theyve received so far in federal emergency funding.
Add it all up changes in reserve funds, decreases in state funding and surges of federal funding and Georgias school districts are better off by more than $6.6 billion. Thats most of the way toward doubling their annual state funding. And every single district, even the ones that spent down some of their reserves, was net positive.
If you believe the education establishment will simply watch that money disappear, Ive got a desert in southeast Georgia to sell you.
It wont be long before we hear this money described not gratefully as a lifeline during a difficult time, but solemnly as how we should have been funding education all along.
There will be little accounting for how it was spent or what it achieved. Itll just become the baseline against which all future education spending is measured.
For once, Id prefer we prove Ronald Reagan wrong.
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Georgia Lawmakers Grapple With Role Of Social Media Companies And Free Speech | 90.1 FM WABE – WABE 90.1 FM
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A Georgia House committee on Thursday debated how much power social media companies should have to control content.
It comes as some Republicans notably former President Donald Trump have been banned for posting inflammatory statements.
Theres consensus among lawmakers that obscene posts or those that incite violence should not be allowed. But when it comes to opinions such as the false claims by Trump and his supporters that the Georgia election was stolen there is less clarity about where social media companies should draw the line.
James Taylor with the libertarian think-tank The Heartland Institute spoke before the House Science & Technology Committee. He says the First Amendment should be interpreted broadly.
Its more than simply a prohibition against government restricting our unalienable rights, Taylor said. It is an embodiment of our rights that cannot be taken away by any entity.
Taylor says more than 30 states are considering legislation to address what he calls censorship by social media companies. He says some of those bills have been proposed by Democrats.
When tech companies choose to become involved in the 21st century version of the public square and decide who or what points of view may be shared, I think thats very troubling, said Taylor.
Democratic Rep. Viola Davis says she values protecting free speech but also has concerns about the effects of hate speech and the incitement of violence.
When do we cross that line? And when do we hold people accountable that cross that line? asked Davis.
Democratic state Rep. Shea Roberts says terms of use agreements clearly spell out what social media companies can and cant do.
I dont see how thats different than other private companies making choices about how they want to run their business, said Roberts.
She also says there are countless other social media platforms for people to use if they disagree with the rules set out by Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Rep. Chuck Martin, a Republican, says social media companies should not favor one political viewpoint over the other. But he also cautions about government getting involved.
This is just something that one has to look and be very careful that theres not an overstep and be very careful that we dont express our subjectivity over the top of another set of subjectivity, Martin said. Because by doing that, were not making it any better, and we could actually be making it worse.
The committee did not discuss or propose any specific pieces of legislation Thursday.
Chairman Ed Setzler, a Republican, says he plans more hearings before deciding how or even if state lawmakers have a role to play in regulating social media.
We do well to define, Is there a problem, whats the nature of the problem, and if there is a problem, is it something the Legislature should address? Maybe we shouldnt, said Setzler.
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What Is Cloud Computing? | PCMag
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What is the cloud? Where is the cloud? Are we in the cloud right now? These are all questions you've probably heard or even asked yourself. The term "cloud computing" is everywhere.
In the simplest terms, cloud computing means storing and accessing data and programs over the internet instead of your computer's hard drive. (The PCMag Encyclopedia defines it succinctly as "hardware and software services from a provider on the internet.")
Ultimately, the "cloud" is just a metaphor for the internet. It goes back to the days of flowcharts and presentations that would represent the gigantic server-farm infrastructure of the internet as nothing but apuffy cloud, accepting connections and doling out information as it floats.
What cloud computing is not about is your hard drive. When you store data on or run programs from the hard drive, that's called local storage and computing. Everything you need is physically close to you, which means accessing your data is fast and easy, for that one computer, or others on the local network. Working off your hard drive is how the computer industry functioned for decades; some would argue it's still superior to cloud computing, for reasons I'll explain shortly.
The cloud is also not about having dedicatednetwork attached storage (NAS) device in your house. Storing data on a home or office network does not count as utilizing the cloud. (However, some NAS devices will let you remotely access things over the internet, and there'sat least one brand from Western Digital named "My Cloud,"just to keep things confusing.)
For it to be considered "cloud computing," you need to access your data or your programs over the internet, or at the very least, have that data synced with other information over the web. In a big business, you may know all there is to know about what's on the other side of the connection; as an individual user, you may never have any idea what kind of massive data processing is happening on the other end in a data center that uses more power in a day than your whole town does in a year. The end result is the same: with an online connection, cloud computing can be done anywhere, anytime.
Let's be clear here. I'm talking about cloud computing as it impacts individual consumersthose of us who sit back at home or in small-to-medium offices and use the internet on a regular basis.
There is an entirely different "cloud" when it comes to business. Some businesses choose to implementSoftware-as-a-Service(SaaS), where the business subscribes to an application it accesses over the internet. (ThinkSalesforce.com.) There's also Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), where a business can create its own custom applications for use by all in the company. And don't forget the mightyInfrastructure-as-a-Service(IaaS), where players like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Rackspace provide a backbone that can be "rented out" by other companies. (For example, Netflix is a customer of the cloud services atAmazon.)
Of course, cloud computing is big business. Our partners at Statista created this chart in February 2020 showing Amazon's dominance in the $100 billion a year business. That, of course, was a month before the COVID-19 coronavirus shut down a lot of businesseswhich then transferred their cloud computing to the home, seamlessly for the most part.
But that's in the US and thus represents only a slice of the cloud pie. If you take the worldwide use into account, the market is worth far more. It was $272 billion in 2018, and expected to be worth $623.3 billion by 2023, according to Markets and Markets.
When it comes to home use, the lines between local computing and cloud computing sometimes get blurry. That's because the cloud is part of almost everything on our computers these days. You can easily have a local piece of software (for instance,Microsoft Office) that utilizes a form of cloud computing for storage (Microsoft OneDrive). Microsoft also offers a set of web-based apps,Office (aka Office for the Web), that are web-only versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote accessed via your web browser without installing anything. That makes them a version of cloud computing (web-based=cloud).
Some other major examples of cloud computing you're probably using:
Google Drive: This is a pure cloud computing service, with all the storage found online so it can work with the cloud productivity apps: Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. Google Drive is also available on more than just desktop computers; you can use it on tablets like the iPador on smartphones, which have separate apps for Docs and Sheets, as well. In fact, most Google services could be considered cloud computing: Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Maps, and so on.
Apple iCloud: Apple's cloud service is primarily used for online storage, backup, and synchronization of your mail, contacts, calendar, and more. All the data you need is available to you on your iOS, iPadOS, macOS, or Windows devices (Windows users have toinstallthe iCloud control panel). Naturally, Apple won't be outdone by rivals: it offers cloud-based versions of its word processor (Pages), spreadsheet (Numbers), and presentations (Keynote) for use by any iCloud subscriber. iCloud is also the place iPhone users go to utilize the Find My iPhone feature when the handset goes missing.
Dropbox: This service has been a simple, reliable file-sync and storage service for years, but is now enhanced with lots of collaboration features (which will cost you and your business, as the free version has gotten a bit skimpy).
Slack: Yes, it's considered cloud computing if you have a community of people with separate devices that need instant messaging/communication. The poster child for that is Slack, but you get the same from Microsoft Teams, Workplace by Facebook, and more. Read about them in 17 Alternatives to Slack.
The aforementioned file-synchronization/backup service, and others like Box, IDrive, and SugarSyncall work in the cloud because they store a synced version of your files online, but they also sync those files with local storage. Synchronization is a cornerstone of the cloud computing experience, even if you do access the file locally. For more, check out our roundup of theThe Best Cloud Storage and File-Syncing Services for 2020.
The primo example of a device that is completely cloud-centric is theChromebook. These laptops have just enough local storage and power to run Chrome OS, which essentially turns theGoogle Chrome web browser into an operating system. With a Chromebook, almost everything you do is online: apps, media, and storage are all in the cloud. Because of that, they tend to be inexpensive and that's made them incredibly popular for education. The latest, made since 2017, will even run Android apps.
You can even try a ChromeBit, a smaller-than-a-candy-bar drive that turns any display with an HDMI port into a usable computer running Chrome OS. Asus still sells one.
What happens if you're somewhere without an internet connection and you need to access your data? This is one of the biggest complaints about Chrome OS, although its offline functionality has improved.
The Chromebook isn't the first product to try this approach. So-called "dumb terminals" that lack local storage and connect to a local server or mainframe go back decades. The first internet-only product attempts included the oldNIC (New internet Computer), theNetpliance iOpener, and the disastrous3Com Ergo Audrey. You could argue they all debuted well before their timedial-up speeds of the 1990s had training wheels compared to the accelerated broadband internet connections of today.
That's why many would argue that cloud computing works at all: the connection to the internet is as fast as the connection to the hard drive. At least it is for some of us.
In a 2013 edition of his feature What if?, xkcd-cartoonist (and former NASA roboticist) Randall Monroe tried to answer the question of "Whenif everwill the bandwidth of the internet surpass that of FedEx?" The question was posed because no matter how great your broadband connection, it's still cheaper to send a package of hundreds of gigabytes of data via FedEx's "sneakernet" of planes and trucks than it is to try and send it over the internet. (The answer, Monroe concluded, is the year 2040.)
Cory Doctorow at boingboing took Monroe's answer as "an implicit critique of cloud computing." To him, the speed and cost of local storage easily outstrips using a wide-area network connection controlled by a telecom company (your ISP).
That's the rub. The ISPs, telcos, and media companies control your access. Putting all your faith in the cloud means you're also putting all your faith in continued, unfettered access. You might get it, but it'll cost you. The more bandwidth you use, the more it costs.Maybe you trust those corporations. That's fine, but there are plenty of other arguments against going into the cloud whole hog. Consider the potential for crashes. When there are problems at a company like Amazon, which provides cloud infrastructure to big name companies like Netflix and Pinterest, it can take out all those services. And more. When Amazon's S3 service got mis-configured in 2017, it took out a hefty chunk of the entire internet across the board. The problems typically last for only hours, but that's not much consolation at the time.
To be honest, it doesn't matter. Cloud computing may be a little bit like the Wild West, where the rules are made up as you go, and you hope for the best, but it's here to stay. The money made by the cloud is immense, the ease of use speaks for itself.
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Cloud Computing provides us means of accessing the applications as utilities over the Internet. It allows us to create, configure, and customize the applications online.
The termCloudrefers to aNetworkorInternet. In other words, we can say that Cloud is something, which is present at remote location. Cloud can provide services over public and private networks, i.e., WAN, LAN or VPN.
Applications such ase-mail, web conferencing, customer relationship management (CRM) execute on cloud.
Cloud Computingrefers tomanipulating, configuring,andaccessingthe hardware and software resources remotely. It offers online data storage, infrastructure, and application.
Cloud computing offers platform independency, as the software is not required to be installed locally on the PC. Hence, the Cloud Computing is making our business applicationsmobileandcollaborative.
There are certain services and models working behind the scene making the cloud computing feasible and accessible to end users. Following are the working models for cloud computing:
Deployment models define the type of access to the cloud, i.e., how the cloud is located? Cloud can have any of the four types of access: Public, Private, Hybrid, and Community.
Thepublic cloudallows systems and services to be easily accessible to the general public. Public cloud may be less secure because of its openness.
Theprivate cloudallows systems and services to be accessible within an organization. It is more secured because of its private nature.
Thecommunity cloudallows systems and services to be accessible by a group of organizations.
Thehybrid cloudis a mixture of public and private cloud, in which the critical activities are performed using private cloud while the non-critical activities are performed using public cloud.
Cloud computing is based on service models. These are categorized into three basic service models which are -
Anything-as-a-Service (XaaS) is yet another service model, which includes Network-as-a-Service, Business-as-a-Service, Identity-as-a-Service, Database-as-a-ServiceorStrategy-as-a-Service.
TheInfrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)is the most basic level of service. Each of the service models inherit the security and management mechanism from the underlying model, as shown in the following diagram:
IaaSprovides access to fundamental resources such as physical machines, virtual machines, virtual storage, etc.
PaaS provides the runtime environment for applications, development and deployment tools, etc.
SaaSmodel allows to use software applications as a service to end-users.
The concept ofCloud Computingcame into existence in the year 1950 with implementation of mainframe computers, accessible viathin/static clients. Since then, cloud computing has been evolved from static clients to dynamic ones and from software to services. The following diagram explains the evolution of cloud computing:
Cloud Computing has numerous advantages. Some of them are listed below -
One can access applications as utilities, over the Internet.
One can manipulate and configure the applications online at any time.
It does not require to install a software to access or manipulate cloud application.
Cloud Computing offers online development and deployment tools, programming runtime environment throughPaaS model.
Cloud resources are available over the network in a manner that provide platform independent access to any type of clients.
Cloud Computing offerson-demand self-service. The resources can be used without interaction with cloud service provider.
Cloud Computing is highly cost effective because it operates at high efficiency with optimum utilization. It just requires an Internet connection
Cloud Computing offers load balancing that makes it more reliable.
Although cloud Computing is a promising innovation with various benefits in the world of computing, it comes with risks. Some of them are discussed below:
It is the biggest concern about cloud computing. Since data management and infrastructure management in cloud is provided by third-party, it is always a risk to handover the sensitive information to cloud service providers.
Although the cloud computing vendors ensure highly secured password protected accounts, any sign of security breach may result in loss of customers and businesses.
It is very difficult for the customers to switch from oneCloud Service Provider (CSP)to another. It results in dependency on a particular CSP for service.
This risk involves the failure of isolation mechanism that separates storage, memory, and routing between the different tenants.
In case of public cloud provider, the customer management interfaces are accessible through the Internet.
It is possible that the data requested for deletion may not get deleted. It happens because either of the following reasons
There are four key characteristics of cloud computing. They are shown in the following diagram:
Cloud Computing allows the users to use web services and resources on demand. One can logon to a website at any time and use them.
Since cloud computing is completely web based, it can be accessed from anywhere and at any time.
Cloud computing allows multiple tenants to share a pool of resources. One can share single physical instance of hardware, database and basic infrastructure.
It is very easy to scale the resources vertically or horizontally at any time. Scaling of resources means the ability of resources to deal with increasing or decreasing demand.
The resources being used by customers at any given point of time are automatically monitored.
In this service cloud provider controls and monitors all the aspects of cloud service. Resource optimization, billing, and capacity planning etc. depend on it.
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Networking’s Future is in the Distributed Cloud | ITBE – IT Business Edge
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A titanic battle for control over the future of enterprise has begun in earnest with the rise of distributed cloud computing architectures through which IT organizations will one day centrally manage a wide range of application environments.
All the major cloud service providers are already extending the reach of their platforms with that goal in mind. Google, for example, has created the Anthos platform based on Kubernetes that can be deployed on any cloud or on-premises IT environment. IT teams can then centrally manage workloads as they best see fit regardless of where they are running.
Microsoft, meanwhile, has launched Azure Arc, a management platform that makes it easier to deploy and manage Azure services across multiple clouds and on-premises IT environments. Each resource is assigned a unique Azure Resource Manager ID that enables it to participate in a resource group and be assigned tags like any other Azure resource.
Amazon Web Services (AWS), meanwhile has developed AWS Outposts, a managed service through which instances of its operating environment can be deployed in an on-premises IT environment or at the network edge. AWS has even gone so far as to build its own servers for those environments.
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Providers of on-premises IT platforms are not simply rolling over as cloud service providers attempt to lay claim to their turf. Both Dell Technologies and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) are extending managed services they provide to the cloud as part of an effort to make it possible to manage an extended enterprise via a console they provide.
IBM, meanwhile, sees an opportunity to regain supremacy by enabling a hybrid cloud computing platform via a Red Hat OpenShift platform based on Kubernetes that can be deployed anywhere. IBM Cloud Satellite is a managed service that extends the reach of IBMs ability to centrally manage multiple clouds all the way out to the network edge.
The one thing all these variations of a distributed cloud have in common is that they assume a console accessed via proprietary service is at the center of an extended enterprise. However, that may not necessarily be how distributed clouds ultimately manage themselves. An open source Crossplane project being advanced by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) is leveraging the control plane originally developed for Kubernetes to create a framework for managing IT resources on any type regardless of location.
Crossplane, rather than limiting the ability of that control plane to manage Kubernetes clusters, makes it possible to also orchestrate legacy virtual machine environments using the Kubernetes application programming interface (API). Originally developed by Upbound, the company recently unveiled a managed service dubbed Upbound Universal Crossplane through which it provides access to a curated instance of Crossplane. However, theres nothing stopping either an internal IT team from deploying Crossplane themselves or contracting an IT services firm to deploy Crossplane on their behalf.
Enterprises want to own the control plane for all the different clouds, says Upbound CEO Bassam Tabbara.
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In addition to not wanting to become locked into a single platform, IT teams are under increased pressure to reduce the total cost of IT. Each platform added to an IT environment requires separate tools to manage it that someone in the IT organizations needs to learn how to use. Before too long there is now a separate team of specialists that has been hired to manage each platform.
Distributed cloud computing environments in theory present an opportunity to centralize the management of IT in as much a cloud computing platform can be stood up. Not every class of edge computing platform has the compute and memory resources needed to run a full stack of cloud software. In fact, Gartner predicts that by the end of 2023 only 20% of edge computing platforms will be delivered and managed by hyperscale cloud providers.
One way or another, however, the way enterprise IT is managed is about to fundamentally change. The existing tools IT teams rely on are largely designed for on-premises IT environments. IT teams either through new tools accessed via a console provided by an IT vendor or one they construct themselves are required to manage distributed computing environments made up of virtual machines, bare-metal servers, graphical processor units (GPUs), containers, Kubernetes clusters and serverless computing frameworks. Achieving that goal will require substantial investments in, for example, modern automation frameworks that enable IT teams to manage infrastructure as code.
IT vendors are making a case for providing access to those tools via services they provide. Each organization will need to decide for themselves to what degree that approach makes sense for them. Some organizations, for example, may decide to focus their limited resources on building applications rather than managing the infrastructure they run on. Others will decide IT is still too crucial to trust the management of it to anyone else. No matter the path chosen, the one thing that is clear is distributed computing is about to be taken to a whole new level.
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Cloud computing has spread its feathers across various industries. The healthcare industry is no exception. The booming healthcare industry has observed tremendous advancements, including cloud computing. Based on the growing need for automation across the healthcare sector, the global healthcare cloud computing market is expected to bring good growth opportunities for the forecast period of 2017-2025.
The popularity of healthcare cloud computing has increased considerably over the years. More than 80 percent of the healthcare industry uses cloud computing for business operations. Transforming healthcare through the cloud is more than just the delivery of medical information or performing any tasks online. It has the ability to connect medical centers too. Thus, all these factors bring promising growth for the healthcare cloud computing market.
Cloud computing has gained substantial momentum and is estimated to gain promising growth as it is helping the healthcare industry in easing tedious clerical functions. Here are some of the important factors that help in boosting the growth prospects of the healthcare cloud computing market.
Cost-cutting
Cloud computing provides on-demand storage and processing power capabilities. The healthcare facilities do not have to buy servers and also are saved from maintaining the servers. The pay-as-you-go model helps in cutting a large chunk of the cost of the healthcare facilities. These aspects will influence the growth of the healthcare cloud computing market.
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Robust Collaborations
Multiple stakeholders can collaborate their data seamlessly and efficiently through cloud computing. This type of collaboration, also known as interoperability is crucial in an emergency or critical medical situation. Fast access to the medical history of the patient and similar data serves as a boon for faster treatment. Therefore, these factors bode well for the growth of the healthcare cloud computing market.
Telehealth
Telehealth involves a wide range of healthcare-related services such as remote monitoring of patient health, training, and education. The deployment of telehealth services becomes easy through cloud computing. Remote locations can be accessed easily with telehealth services. The load on healthcare facilities is reduced substantially due to these services, which further increases the demand for healthcare cloud computing.
Quick Diagnosis
The adoption of the latest advancements such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning in the healthcare cloud computing market is expected to sow the seeds of growth. By machine learning algorithms, the ability to diagnose diseases accurately is improved extensively. These factors bring promising growth for the healthcare cloud computing market.
Healthcare Cloud Computing in COVID-19
Cloud computing was already gaining tremendous traction before COVID-19 hit the world. The emergence of the pandemic led to a high patient caseload and a strain on the healthcare infrastructure. To ease the workload, healthcare cloud computing gained immense momentum during the pandemic. Heres how the healthcare cloud computing market is anticipated to observe a positive growth trajectory across the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Contact Tracing
The cloud computing systems in the healthcare sector are helping in tracking COVID-19 patients. The data collected by cloud computing is used for tracing the infection histories and links. These links prove to be beneficial for breaking the chain of transmission. The various applications developed by numerous cloud computing developers will serve as a growth churner for the healthcare cloud computing market.
Rapid Efficiency
With the number of COVID-19 positive patients increasing at a rapid rate, accessibility to faster cloud servers and data recovery at a faster pace helps in decreasing the caseload of the healthcare professionals. Swift data and communication exchange between healthcare workers, research centers, and hospital centers enables a better and more time-efficient healthcare environment. Hence, all these factors will boost the demand for healthcare cloud computing extensively.
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